Record tape magazine



Nov. 17, 1953 F. H. OWENS RECORD TAPE MAGAZINE Original Filed Sept. 15, 1945 Patented Nov. 17, 1953' RECORD TAPE MAGAZINE Freeman H. Owens, New York, N. Y.

Original application September 15, 1943, Serial No. 502,717, now Patent No. 2,514,086, dated July 4, 1950.

2 Claims. 1

The invention herein disclosed relates to the magazine structure for containing the recording tape employed in radio preference indicating systems, and is a division of patent application Serial No. 502,717, filed September 15, 1943, which issued Patent 2,514,986 of July 4, 1950.

Special objects of the invention are to provide a'form of magazine which can be readily cou pled to the recording or marking instrumentalities of the radio receiver and be used for shipping the record medium from the point of recording to the collating and analyzing center.

Further important objects of the invention are to provide this magazine structure in a simple, compact, inexpensive, small size form which will properly protect the record strip and which can be quickly and easily opened and closed for taking out the recorded tape or for inserting fresh recording material.

Other desirable objects attained by the invention and the novel features of construction. comb nation and relation of parts are set forth or will a ear in the course of the followin specification.

The drawing accompanying and forming part of the specification illustrates different practical embodiments of the invention. Structure, how ever, may be modified and changed, all within the true intent and broad scope of the invention as hereinafter defined and claimed. The illustration, therefore, is to be considered primarily by way of disclosure rather than by way of limitation, the true scope of the invention being as defined in the following specification and claims.

Fig. 1 in the drawing is a broken part sectional view of a form of the record magazine as mounted in a program preselecting receiver of the ty e disclosed in Freeman l-I. Owens Patent No. 2,337,568 of December 28. 1943, of which the present parent patent application is a division;

Fig. 2 is a broken cross sectional view of the same on substantially the plane of line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views of a modified form of recorder, F g. 3 being taken on substantially the plane of line 33 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 4 on substantially the plane of line 4 l of Fig. 3.

In the first form of the invention disclosed, the record strio or tape 20 is shown extending from a roll on the supply spool or reel 2 I, over a drive sprocket 22 to a take-up spool 23, in position for electrodes 24 to impose distinguishing marks on the tape.

,This tape may be perforated along one edge to be engaged by the teeth of the drive sprocket Divided and this application July 1, 1950, Serial No. 171,731

2 22, and the latter is shown as having a conical toothed clutch seat 26 at the back to receive a correspondingly shaped drive cone 2'! on the forward end of a drive bushing 23.

The latter is suitably driven, as disclosed in Patents 2,337,568 of December 23, 1943, and 2,514,086 of July 4, 1950.

This drive may be intermittent, for instance on one minute intervals.

The electrodes 24 may be connected for designating different radio stations, phonograph or other uses, so that with each station selecting impulse there will be a discharge from an electrode 24 representing the selected circuit down through the tape to the tape carrying sprocket 22, of conducting material, and by way of the latter, back through the tape to a common return, producing a second indicating mark or perforation in the tape.

Other electrodes associated with the group 2 may be connected for recording on and off conditions of the machine with which the magazinc is associated.

The entire gang of electrodes may he auto matically lifted off the record strip for each movement of the latter, by the mechanism disclosed in the patents mentioned.

The entire record tape mechanism is shown carried by and enclosed within an insulating case 48 which can be slipped horizontally into position on a support 49 at the back of the casing to couple the sprocket 22 up with the intermittent drive mechanism therefor.

A slot 58 is shown in the top of the record box for entry of the marking rodes, and when this box is to be placed in or be removed from the machine, the electrodes may be lifted clear of this opening by a yoke lever 5| shown pivoted on the shaft 4| on which the gang of electrodes is pivoted, with the outer arm of this yoke serving as a handle and the inner arm extending in under the screw projection 52 of the pivoted electrode carrier.

The lever 5|, in addition to serving as a means for lifting the electrodes, is shown as dropping down over the front of the record case, Figs. 1 and 2, to hold it back against the yielding stop 53, where the clutch for driving the sprocket 22 will be properly engaged and the electrodes will be properly lined up in the opening 50 over the record strip on the sprocket or platen roller 22.

As the record tape need be moved only a slight distance for each broadcast or other selected period, a short length of tape will carry a longtime record, and this in turn means that the 3 magazine structure may be only a small unit with simple mechanism for spooling the tape, such as indicated.

In the illustration the casing is shown as of split construction at 54, with the two parts held together by through screws and the spools or reels 2i, 23, are shown as reinovably engaged over journal projections lit, fill, on the opposite walls of the casing.

These hollow spools are further shown as hav- Y ing gear toothed ends iii; meshing with an intermediate motion reversing pinion journaled on a Wall projection between the spools. Thus, with this construction, the unwinding spool 2i through the intermediate pinion, drives the other,

as a take-up spool.

The service recorder described may be located in place so that it cannot he tampered with, thus to assure an accurate record 01' the use the machine.

The form or the record, while it may vary, may be substantially l ke that illustrated in co invention shown in Figs. and i, the rec-o1 casing is removably seated in poo" where it releasably held by pivoted latches connected by spring i-i l, entering note es in opposite sides oi the reccro. nxposoc'; fillg holds Mil enable these spring latches to be to release the record case.

In this partic lar form the invention the record over sprocket or platen roll is supported positioned haclr opening hit in the bottom of the magazine, hen

by a spring retainer plate Mic.

The electrode E l project up th ough the opeo-- ing in the bot o of the and the on g in the ing retainer plate into cooperative relation o n the tape supported on platen roll.

All of. th to electrodes are shown pivotaliy supported it rocked upwardly into posi tion for cooperation with the tape, by spring hit.

The retain i l-lo yieldingly holds the recurs snip 111 position the recording opening Ml, iii Gill when magazine in position on and i the the receiver and when it is removed from the receiver.

tches tell may have a suitable at only an authorized person H pose may release the me a recording inachine. particular embod sprocket wheel i132 connected with tplaten or sprocket J shiny; thro .gh the opening in oi the with a drive gear t lt carried by shaft l ll the recording mechanism. The tal1e-up spool is turned by gearing M8. M8, from the gear on the sprocket shaft 150.

in this form of the invention the opening in the botto 'i of the magazine casing provides access 1 r hath the drive which operates the epoch mechanism and the electrodes which impose the rnark on the record tape, where as in the first form oi? the invention illustrated. the pr video in the top of the magazine casing anords access for the marking instrureadily withdrawn mentalities and the opening in the back of the case provides access for the means which drives the spooling mechanism.

In all forms of the invention the magazine of small size, with the case made up or the two front and back parts removably secured together and containing the tape spooling reels connected to be driven and including the platen roll for cooperation with the recording electrodes arranged to be coupled in driven engagement with thetiming train of the program selecting recording mechanism.

In the first form the parts are coupled up by merely lifting the lever 51 and pushing th zine horizontally back into supported position, with the sprocket coupled over the end of the drive shaft. In the second form the magazine is coupled up for operation by simply dropp it downward into the socket provided for same.

In both instances the openings in the admit the recording electrodes into COOIJBlCLtlvQ relation with the record tape of or ot. material extending about the platen roll. spooling mechanism holds the tape in place when the magazine is removed from the recording n sing having an opening in the hcttcrn e, record tape spooling race a including a platen roll in and a spring tensioned r y engaged over said platen ro' ecorrl over said platen rol ii. about said roll beneath plate.

2. A magazine for record tape, comprising a casing having an opening in the bottom of ti same, record tape spoollng mechanism in o casing, including a platen in line with op ing for positioning a record tape supports in the spooling mechanism, a support hav' pocket in which the bottom portion of the is removably received, said casing having no" in opposite sides of the lower portion of same and disposed Within said pocket when the casing is seated therein and spring latches enter lng opposite sides of said pocket in position to enter said notches in the casing for r novels I securing the casing in seated position within pocket.

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